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- Babes in bikeland: Advice for cycling with kids
Photo by Patrick Barber. (All photos in this post used with permission.) My daughter will turn 3 this year, and we just enrolled her in preschool. With all our childcare at home to date, we’ve been lucky to avoid lots of extra running around with the kid. So, no sooner had we si... - Blood on the bike path: What a tragic accident teaches us about safely sharing the trails
A few weeks ago, just outside of Washington, D.C., a woman was hit and killed by a man on a bicycle while walking on a paved multi-use trail, aka a “bike path.” It was a tragic accident. My heart goes out to any and all that knew and loved her. It also distressed me to read the ... - Training wheels for your Hummer? GM stamps brand names on Japanese bikes
Don’t look now, but people in Japan are driving Hummers. By driving we mean pedaling. And by Hummers? We mean bicycles. It’s true. An outfit called Global Innovation Company is distributing a line of bicycles bearing the names of foreign and American car manufacturers: Ferrari, ... - Rio cycle: Canadian bikes to Earth Summit (with a little help from trains and buses)
Naomi Devine. (Photo by Zoma Fotografia .) Thousands of people from around the world have converged on Rio de Janeiro this week for the Earth Summit , a mammoth conference aimed at creating a green economy for the globe. But I can count on one hand the people who got here by bic... - U.N. tries to inspire world bike revolution, doesn’t
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon stood at a podium outside the U.N. on Friday wearing a dashing bike helmet — only to break my heart. A promise had been made to me that I would get to ride bikes with the secretary general. To be fair, the promise was only implied; the invite from t...
